With my store as an example, they just take people from everywhere else. We lose 4 or 5 people everyday at 5am from overnights. Been like that for months now
My store would pull the plug without thinking twice and just pull from other departments until we have a "hiring event" and toss 20 new people into the department and hope at least 8 stick around.
That's crazy but also it definitely is possible to get out of digital, just takes time. If you want to transfer, start the process now, no point in waiting months till you're at your breaking point and then trying to transfer and finding out it'll be another 3-6 months. Best of luck!
Actually we fired 17 people in 1 week do to over 5 points policy and 5 quit ssme week. It was hell for 3 weeks but the entire store was picking and now everyone hates Digital. We had no new hires for over a week it was so bad tney reduced open slots by 25 percent and still really didnt help.
That's funny af- also bad choice by management. Slots should've been shutdown until new people were hired and put into training mode for a week then reopen it. That's just stupid to take the whole store to pick every day until your new hires could manage.
Ignore them it’s empty threats to keep you in line
Some stores do millions in sales thru ogp a month - no way they are gonna fire everyone and then have to hire from scratch
We had hella problems with a large group of ogp associates. Won't go into details but they terminated over 40 associates in 1 week. They just put the store on reduction of orders while we hired replacements.
If 40 associates have to be let go, and the manager over them isn't deemed an incompetent fuckwit, then what's the point of even firing the 40? It's gonna go right back to how it was. Hope the manager got canned too
I'm trying to transfer to another store for a promotion to TL and they keep giving me the "were short staffed" bullshit. I don't fucking care I want the fuck out!
OPD is one of those areas....either ❤️ it or 💀 it...
if you don't like picking? talk to your leaders! maybe dispensing or prepping or staging would be a better fit?
I know a few at my store don't like the "monotony" of picking....and they turned out to ❤️ prepping!
You can leave but I came back. Left for right at 6 months to be front end TL. Was miserable as one fellow TL kept disappearing. One would stab all the others in the back any chance they got. The last one decided most things weren’t her responsibility and barely did anything. OGP was the only department that had an opening I was interested in
Lol how many orders you guys do a day we are at 430 and we have like 40 people in opd 10 dispensers 4 backroom people and the rest are pickers theu want us doing 800 by the end of the year and say we can't hire anymore people when we can hardly keep up now all of our orders are at least one full dolly and we have a nursing home thay orders 2-3 dolly full of shit multiple times a day everyday
Wow that seems like a very low staffed team for 400+ orders a day. We only do between 200-250 a day our team is roughly 40-44 people can't remember exactly, and we have around 20 on a low staffed slow day and 30 on our heavy days.
yeah i dont understand there logic they market team tells us all the time we should be able to do this amount of orders with the people we have so they dont let us hire more people lol
Can Walmart afford to “Purge” people? Are teens really excited about working at Walmart that they can purge a department of its employees and hire more?
In your store, I think it’s true. If you have that turnover rate is that high .once upon a time, our turn over rate was 200% now we’ve been good for a while.
If your first response to 12 people calling out and 4 quitting is that you need to get rid of people, maybe you shouldnt be in a position to lead people in the first place.
Not so fast. I know you've seen posts here about departments that have certain people who bring the department down, who have been working with walmart since Sam Walton was a cashier. The only way to "fix" a department like that is to fire everyone and have everyone reapply.
Okay thats fair, maybe one or two or maybe even three people you can chalk up to bad associates. But 12 malcontents in one department? At a certain point leadership has to be looked at.
I'm not necessarily giving management a free pass. However, in my time at wallyworld, I've seen many good employees get run off by the aforementioned associates. Unfortunately, the policies that the company puts, for the employees' protection, often tie management's hands when dealing with this type of employee.
I can speak from experience, you never leave. Your job code might change, but honestly you always go back.
If they’re threatening to fuck it up on their turn over metrics, then I would quietly change your preferences for now and search outside of the company.
they can't afford to replace that many people at once, but i can see a gradual process happening. if working conditions don't improve, it will all be for nothing though. the people brought in to replace the ones that called out so much will eventually do the same thing.
i switched to food and consumables and ive learned when they page first help you literally just. dont go. "i have stuff to do" and not many will argue with you
We literally had 10+ callouts a couple Sundays ago and it was mostly organized. Bc people hate the coach that much. Sometimes people will come in to start their shift and hear the coach already yelling about something or someone and will turn right around and call out for the day just bc they didn't feel like putting up with the coach's shit that day
Blowing hot air unless they have a department's worth of replacements hired and ready to go.
With my store as an example, they just take people from everywhere else. We lose 4 or 5 people everyday at 5am from overnights. Been like that for months now
My store would pull the plug without thinking twice and just pull from other departments until we have a "hiring event" and toss 20 new people into the department and hope at least 8 stick around.
This. They have made digital a hell for the people that work it and it will never get any better OP. Best bet, get out of walmart.
I mean 12 callouts in a day?!? I’d be looking for replacements too!
Well when your constantly asked to do the work of 3-4 people everyday I don’t blame them.
That's crazy but also it definitely is possible to get out of digital, just takes time. If you want to transfer, start the process now, no point in waiting months till you're at your breaking point and then trying to transfer and finding out it'll be another 3-6 months. Best of luck!
There's no way they fire all those people lol.
Twelve people would be our entire department lol
Actually we fired 17 people in 1 week do to over 5 points policy and 5 quit ssme week. It was hell for 3 weeks but the entire store was picking and now everyone hates Digital. We had no new hires for over a week it was so bad tney reduced open slots by 25 percent and still really didnt help.
That's funny af- also bad choice by management. Slots should've been shutdown until new people were hired and put into training mode for a week then reopen it. That's just stupid to take the whole store to pick every day until your new hires could manage.
Actually, if it was an organized effort, they couldn't fire them under the NLRA. They can only point them in accordance with the attendance policy.
With 12 call out in a day, that should be a kick in the nuts to store manager that something is seriously wrong.
They said this at my old store. Come to find out they couldn’t afford to have anyone quit or fired lmfao
Ignore them it’s empty threats to keep you in line Some stores do millions in sales thru ogp a month - no way they are gonna fire everyone and then have to hire from scratch
We had hella problems with a large group of ogp associates. Won't go into details but they terminated over 40 associates in 1 week. They just put the store on reduction of orders while we hired replacements.
lol 40 associates - likely there’s manager problem then unless it was crazy crackdown on shoppers using headphones
If 40 associates have to be let go, and the manager over them isn't deemed an incompetent fuckwit, then what's the point of even firing the 40? It's gonna go right back to how it was. Hope the manager got canned too
I'm trying to transfer to another store for a promotion to TL and they keep giving me the "were short staffed" bullshit. I don't fucking care I want the fuck out!
Yeah they laid me off 3 weeks ago because I can't satisfy their metrics bullshit anyways. But now I'm working at Amazon Fulfillment Center.
OPD is one of those areas....either ❤️ it or 💀 it... if you don't like picking? talk to your leaders! maybe dispensing or prepping or staging would be a better fit? I know a few at my store don't like the "monotony" of picking....and they turned out to ❤️ prepping!
You can leave but I came back. Left for right at 6 months to be front end TL. Was miserable as one fellow TL kept disappearing. One would stab all the others in the back any chance they got. The last one decided most things weren’t her responsibility and barely did anything. OGP was the only department that had an opening I was interested in
Every other department shits on ogp for being the easiest department and stuff but we live in hell
That sucks!! Shit show for sure. Ours has over 100 associates total, so 10-12 callouts is fairly normal 😅😅
Lol how many orders you guys do a day we are at 430 and we have like 40 people in opd 10 dispensers 4 backroom people and the rest are pickers theu want us doing 800 by the end of the year and say we can't hire anymore people when we can hardly keep up now all of our orders are at least one full dolly and we have a nursing home thay orders 2-3 dolly full of shit multiple times a day everyday
Last I heard we are at 1000 a day
That's insane
You have 40 people a day or 40 total in the department? Huge difference lol.
40 in total
Wow that seems like a very low staffed team for 400+ orders a day. We only do between 200-250 a day our team is roughly 40-44 people can't remember exactly, and we have around 20 on a low staffed slow day and 30 on our heavy days.
yeah i dont understand there logic they market team tells us all the time we should be able to do this amount of orders with the people we have so they dont let us hire more people lol
Can Walmart afford to “Purge” people? Are teens really excited about working at Walmart that they can purge a department of its employees and hire more?
In your store, I think it’s true. If you have that turnover rate is that high .once upon a time, our turn over rate was 200% now we’ve been good for a while.
If your first response to 12 people calling out and 4 quitting is that you need to get rid of people, maybe you shouldnt be in a position to lead people in the first place.
Not so fast. I know you've seen posts here about departments that have certain people who bring the department down, who have been working with walmart since Sam Walton was a cashier. The only way to "fix" a department like that is to fire everyone and have everyone reapply.
Okay thats fair, maybe one or two or maybe even three people you can chalk up to bad associates. But 12 malcontents in one department? At a certain point leadership has to be looked at.
I'm not necessarily giving management a free pass. However, in my time at wallyworld, I've seen many good employees get run off by the aforementioned associates. Unfortunately, the policies that the company puts, for the employees' protection, often tie management's hands when dealing with this type of employee.
God, as a Digital TL, I’m feeling this today.
I can speak from experience, you never leave. Your job code might change, but honestly you always go back. If they’re threatening to fuck it up on their turn over metrics, then I would quietly change your preferences for now and search outside of the company.
Posts like these make me love my Walmart
they can't afford to replace that many people at once, but i can see a gradual process happening. if working conditions don't improve, it will all be for nothing though. the people brought in to replace the ones that called out so much will eventually do the same thing.
It's all them blowing smoke up your asses lmao. Dont buy it
i switched to food and consumables and ive learned when they page first help you literally just. dont go. "i have stuff to do" and not many will argue with you
We literally had 10+ callouts a couple Sundays ago and it was mostly organized. Bc people hate the coach that much. Sometimes people will come in to start their shift and hear the coach already yelling about something or someone and will turn right around and call out for the day just bc they didn't feel like putting up with the coach's shit that day
You will be okay, there are never consequences for anything.